Frida Giannini Biography

Name : Frida Giannini 

Date of Birth : 1972

Birth Place : Rome, Italy

Occupation :  Fashion designer 

Frida Giannini was born in 1972, in Rome, Italy. The only child of her architect father and her history professor mother, she credits her parents for instilling her hardworking habits that later became a driving force in her career. After completing her education at the Fashion Academy in her home city, Giannini did an apprenticeship through a ready-to-wear fashion house and worked for the legendary designer Karl Lagerfeld for six years.

In 1997, Frida Giannini joined Fendi as a designer for ready-to-wear clothing, but she was soon asked to create leather goods. As part of the Fendi team, Giannini's ideas were tied to the success of the label's popular Baguette handbag.

In September 2002, she joined Gucci as Handbag Design Director. Two years later, she was appointed to the unprecedented role of Creative Director of Accessories in charge of bags, shoes, luggage, small leathergoods, silks, fine jewellery, gifts, watches and eyewear. She took on the position with her trademark confidence and conviction, and has brought a powerful point-of-view to the house's accessories. 

In March 2005, she was named Creative Director of Gucci Women's ready-to-wear, in addition to her responsibilities for all accessories. In January 2006, she also became in charge of men's wear, thus becoming the sole Creative Director of the label.

Giannini continues to design from heritage. For example, the 2010 Winter Men's line was noted for influences from Gucci's equestrian history. However, Giannini says, "I don't think it is a nostalgic collection, but heritage is good for me — going back to the archives, but looking forward to the future."

Freida Pinto Biography

Name : Freida Pinto

Date of Birth : 18 October 1984, Bombay, Maharashtra, India

Nickname : Fro 

Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m) 

Occupation : Model and actress 

Freida Pinto was born on October 18, 1984, in Mumbai, India. Her early interest in acting (she remembers it starting at age 5) was a direct contrast to the occupations and interests of the rest of the family: Her mother, Sylvia, worked as a principal, while dad Frederick served as a bank manager and sister Sharon became a television news producer.  

While attending St. Xavier's College in Mumbai, Freida Pinto's course load included studies in film and literature, which piqued her interest in show business all the more and solidified her intent to work in entertainment. A few amateur theater productions followed, but Freida Pinto found that entering the Bollywood film industry was difficult. She had no family members or close friends employed there already, so another approach was needed.

Freida Pinto graduated from St Xavier's College in her hometown of Mumbai with a BA in English in 2005. She was signed up to the Elite Model Agency in India where she was selected for numerous campaigns for brands such as De Beers, Visa, MTV, Chanel, eBay and Airtel.

She has appeared on several TV shows including Wendell Rodricks for Lakme Fashion Week 2006. She went on to anchor Full Circle on Zee International Asia Pacific, successfully completing 52 episodes where she presented a unique report on Afghanistan and explored the vibrant cultures and traditions of Fiji, Malaysia and Singapore among others.

Freida Pinto traversed the modeling circuit in Mumbai [represented by Elite Model Management India] for two years before gaining her big break when director Danny Boyle picked her out in the audition process to play the female lead, Latika, for his project Slumdog Millionaire (2008). In a promo interview, Boyle likened spotting her to his discovery of Kelly Macdonald for Trainspotting.

She was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award for her feature film debut as Latika in Slumdog Millionaire (2009) and shared a Screen Actors Guild award with the rest of the cast. Since then, she has had starring roles in Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) and Julian Schnabel's Miral (2010).

Frances O'Connor Biography

Name : Frances O'Connor 

Date of Birth : 12 June 1967, Wantage, Oxfordshire, England, UK 

Height : 5' 8½" (1.74 m) 

Occupation : Actress

Although Frances O'Connor was born in Oxfordshire, England, her parents, a nuclear physician and a pianist, moved the family to Australia when she was only two years old. Today O'Connor is one of Australia's most outstanding and up-and-coming actresses. She has starred in some of the best independent films in recent times.

She started her career on television before making it into films. Starting with a small role in Law of the Land as a journalist, she went on to do guest appearances on Blue Heelers, Snowy River: The McGregor Saga, Frontline and The Panel. She then appearred in the T.V. thriller movie, Halifax f.p: The Feeding, coincidentally playing a character with her name.

After graduating from the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts in Perth and appearing extensively on Australian TV in series including "Halifax f.p.", dark-haired, porcelain-skinned actress Frances O'Connor made her film debut in Emma-Kate Croghan's surprise hit "Love and Other Catastrophes" in 1996. She played Mia, a self-assured film student facing difficulties with school administration and romantic problems with her girlfriend Danni (Radha Mitchell). The actress' impressive turn as the staunch and spunky young woman in this Australian independent garnered notice and acclaim. Hot on the heels of the 1996 Cannes screening of "Love and Other Catastrophes", O'Connor began lensing "Thank God He Met Lizzie" (1997) a romantic comedy starring Cate Blanchett as the titular significant other of a man (Richard Roxburgh) plagued by thoughts of his previous girlfriend Jenny (O'Connor). As Jenny, O'Connor gave an exuberant performance, easily evincing the high-spirited vitality and charm crucial to her role as the idealized early girlfriend who lives primarily in flashback. Although the film attracted only a small audience, critics pointed to O'Connor's performance as a stand-out feature of the otherwise unremarkable offering.  

Frances Bean Cobain Biography

NAME: Frances Bean Cobain

OCCUPATION: Singer

BIRTH DATE: August 18, 1992 (Age: 19)

PLACE OF BIRTH: Los Angeles, California

ZODIAC SIGN: Leo

Celebrity, model, singer. Born on August 18, 1992, in Los Angeles, California. Daughter of the late singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain from Nirvana and singer and actress Courtney Love, Frances Bean Cobain has spent much of her young life in the spotlight because of her parents.

Cobain was making headlines soon after she was born. Since both of her parents had struggled with drugs over the years, there was a lot of speculation about Frances’s health. One tabloid newspaper went so far as to run a story titled “Rock Star’s Baby is Born a Junkie.” Contrary to such reports, Frances Bean Cobain was a healthy, normal baby with incredible blue eyes just like her father.  

So far to date, Cobain has given five official interviews. In September 2005, a thirteen-year-old Cobain gave her first interview to Teen Vogue where she discussed her personal style and mentioned her parents. Another appeared in the January 2006 issue of i-D, where she expressed negativity over tabloid portrayals of her mother and was quoted as saying, "When you see a lot of lies about her in the tabloids, it can be hurtful."

In August 2006, she was photographed for Elle magazine in her father's famous brown cardigan and pajama pants as part of an article featuring children of rock stars in their parents' clothing. She explained, "I wore his pajamas because he got married in them to my mom in 1992 in Hawaii so I thought they would be cute if I wore them today. He was too lazy to put on a tux so he got married in pajamas!" In February 2008, she appeared in a photo spread for Harper's Bazaar.[17] In July 2010, she spoke with Interview magazine about her art, following her debut exhibition in Los Angeles.

Florence Welch Biography

Birth Name :Florence Mary Leontine Welch 

Date of Birth : 28 August 1986, London, England, UK 

Height : 5' 9" (1.75 m) 

Occupation : Musician 

She had a conventional enough background, growing up in south-east London to educated, middle-class parents, that is until her mother fell in love in with the neighbour and moved her family next door. It's fair to say this must have had a knock-on effect for Flo, who then rebelled briefly getting into punk and even starting her own band called the Toxic Cockroaches.

She had a brief foray at the Camberwell College of Art (one project being a cake iced with the words 'it's all going to get worse', which she then ate as part of the performance) before making a stab at the singing lark, which she was luckily much better at. After drunkenly blowing her own trumpet to Queenz of Noize music promoter Mairead Nash at a bar, she was invited then to perform at London's Soho Revue Bar and the rest as they say is history.

Welch was educated at Thomas's London Day School then went onto Alleyn's School, South East London, where she did well academically. She often got in trouble in school for impromptu singing. Welch has been diagnosed with dyslexia and dyspraxia. Following her meteoric rise to fame, she suffered a bout of depression. Upon leaving school, Welch studied at Camberwell College of Arts before dropping out to focus on music. Welch's fascination with terror and doom was intensified by the death of her grandparents within a few years of each other. At the age 10 Welch witnessed her grandfather's deterioration, and her maternal grandmother, also an art historian, committed suicide when Welch was 14. When Welch was 13 years old, she and her mother moved in with their next door neighbour and his three teenage children. According to Welch: "We get on brilliantly now, but it was a nightmare then. I just used to stay in my room and dance around."

Welch contributed vocals to David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's 2010 album Here Lies Love, an album about Imelda Marcos. When discussing her fashion style, Welch said that "(f)or the stage, it's Lady of Shalott meets Ophelia ... mixed with scary gothic bat lady. But in real life I'm kind of prim." 

Fergie Biography

NAME: Fergie

OCCUPATION: Singer

BIRTH DATE: March 27, 1975 (Age: 36)

PLACE OF BIRTH: Hacienda Heights, California

ZODIAC SIGN: Aries

Singer, actress. Born Stacy Ferguson on March 27, 1975, in Hacienda Heights, California (some sources say Whittier, California). While today she is widely known as a successful solo artist and member of the popular hip-hop rock group the Black Eyed Peas, Fergie started out as an actress. She appeared in commercials and did voice work before joining the cast of Kids Incorporated in 1984.

In the 1990s, Fergie joined forces with Stefanie Ridel and former Kids Incorporated cast member Renee Sands (also known as Renee Sandstrom) to form the pop group Wild Orchid. They released their first self-titled album in 1996, which spawned the modest hits “At Night I Pray,”“Talk to Me,” and “Supernatural.” Their 1998 follow-up album, Oxygen, did not fair as well as their initial effort.

In 2003, Ferguson took over the lead female vocal duties for the band, The Black Eyed Peas. Ferguson replaced background singer Kim Hill, who left the group in 2000. Ferguson recorded five songs with the group before she was invited to join them permanently. Ferguson's addition to the band, which had been formed years earlier, sent the group on a whirlwind of success. She appeared on the cover of FHM in January 2005. In 2006, Ferguson returned to acting, appearing in the movie, Poseidon. She is also featured as No. 36 on Maxim's Hot 100 list for 2006. After two hit BEP albums, Ferguson has turned her sights on a solo career. Her first album due in September 2006, is entitled, The Dutchess, a take on Sarah Ferguson's, The Duchess of York royal title, and the common 'Ferguson' surname. The solo deal however, does not mean the demise of the Black Eyed Peas. Ferguson is intending staying with the group, and alternating between the two duties. Music on The Dutchess is expected to be reminiscent of the Black Eyed Peas sound, most likely due to fellow BEP member, Will.i.am, featured on production duties. Ferguson worked with an array of talent, and the lyrics will focus on Fergie's own brand of style and delivery.

Ferguson is currently dating actor Josh Duhamel who appears on the television show Las Vegas. Ferguson actually partook in an episode of Las Vegas titled "Montecito Lancers". Ferguson is also due to appear in the feature film Grind House due out in 2007.

Fearne Cotton Biography

Name: Fearne Cotton

Born: 3/09/1982 (Age: 29)

From: London, UK

Occupation : Radio and television presenter

voice-over artist

Fearne Cotton was born Fearne Marie Cotton on the 3rd of September 1982 in Northwood, London. She was raised in Eastcote, Abbotsbury Gardens and attended the Newnham Primary School and the Ruislip and Haydon School in Eastcote. 

Even as a child, Fearne Cotton was already into performing and was already attending ballet lessons at the young age of five. When she was ten, she was already enjoying her weekend drama training. Her major break was in the national talent search for which she was discovered. 

In 1998, when she was 16, Frarne landed a presenting stint in The Disney Club program in GMTV in 1998. Diggit soon followed, where she appeared opposite Paule “Des” Ballard. Several children shows followed including Draw Your Own Toons bu CITV and the series Mouse. 

Cotton has also presented many telethons. In Jul. 2005 (6 years ago) she presented Live 8 in Hyde Park. During the event, the British pop-star Robbie Williams flirted with her in front of the cameras, causing much speculation in the media at the time, but which was later repudiated by the pair. She has also hosted the BBC's annual telethon, Children in Need, alongside Terry Wogan and Natasha Kaplinsky, since 2005 (6 years ago). In 2006 (5 years ago), she designed the official BBC Children in Need t-shirt - featuring a henna style design of the charity's mascot, Pudsey Bear. In 2008 (3 years ago), she hosted a Strictly Come Dancing special as part of Children in Need 2008 (3 years ago). 

She has hosted parts of the Red Nose Day telethon for Comic Relief (2005, 2007 (4 years ago), and 2009 (2 years ago)) presenting several strands alongside Jonathan Ross and Lenny Henry. In 2009 (2 years ago), she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, alongside Ben Shephard, Gary Barlow, Alesha Dixon, Ronan Keating, Denise Van Outen and Chris Moyles, and Girls Aloud (29 walls) members Cheryl Cole (12 walls) and Kimberley Walsh. Cotton and others collapsed from altitude sickness during the five-day climb. She was in the first group (with Van Outen, Shephard and Cole) to reach the summit and helped raise £3.3m. Cotton filmed a video piece for Comic Relief about Malaria. She visited a children's Hospital in Uganda where she witnessed a young child in pain through Malaria. Cotton had to walk out the room and collapsed as she did so but was able to continue shortly after. The child died later. Cotton also recorded her voice for the BT Speaking Clock to raise funds for Comic Relief.

Farrah Fawcett Biography

NAME: Farrah Fawcett

OCCUPATION: Actress, Pin-up

BIRTH DATE: February 02, 1947

DEATH DATE: June 25, 2005

EDUCATION: St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Corpus Christi, W. B. Ray High School in Corpus Christi, University of Texas at Austin

Actress. Born Ferrah Leni Fawcett, on February 2, 1947, in the coastal city of Corpus Christi, Texas. She was the second daughter of Pauline, a homemaker, and Jim Fawcett, an oil field contractor. She later changed her name to Farrah.

She attended John J. Pershing Middle School in Houston, Texas, a school which is now the magnet program for fine arts. From 1962-65, Fawcett attended W.B. Ray High School, where she held the title of "Most Beautiful Student" for all four years.

In the fall of 1965, Fawcett enrolled at The University of Texas at Austin, where she planned to major in microbiology and joined the Delta Delta Delta sorority. The following year, a celebrity publicist asked her to go to California to work as a model. Initially, her parents forbade her to go, however, in the summer of 1968 they conceded and accompanied Fawcett on her trip out west to Hollywood. 

Her image – impossibly fresh-faced, toothsome and glowing with confidence and casual sex appeal – boosted her fledgling acting career and was almost as critical to her superstardom as her bouncy turn as one of a trio of “three little girls who went to the police academy…” in Aaron Spelling’s camp action series “Charlie’s Angels” (ABC, 1976-1981). At the peak of her fame and after only one season, she shockingly departed the series in 1977 with the intention of making a name in feature films, but the results were dismal at best and she was virtually written off as a 1970s relic, much like the pet rock. Determined to prove the naysayers wrong – that she was more than pearly whites and feathered hair – in the early 1980s, she began surprising fans and critics alike with a string of intense and unglamorous roles in plays, independent features and television movies like “The Burning Bed” (1984), “Extremities” (1985), and “Small Sacrifices” (1989). But Fawcett found it difficult to maintain the same level of quality in later projects, and a series of public appearances in which she appeared confused and/or heavily medicated did much to undo the goodwill generated by these mid-career efforts. In 2006 and 2007, Fawcett generated international headlines again with the revelation that she was undergoing treatment for anal cancer – the third of the three original Angels to confront this disease. Her long battle, poignantly documented in the public's last glimpse of the icon, "Farrah's Story" (NBC, 2009), came to an end on June 25, 2009, when Fawcett, 62, died in Los Angeles with family and friends by her bedside.

Famke Janssen Biography

Birth Name : Famke Beumer Janssen 

Date of Birth : 5 November 1964, Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 

Height : 6' (1.83 m) 

Famous as : Actress

Janssen was born on November 5, 1964 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and began modeling at a young age, becoming immediately successful in her native Holland. When work for Chanel brought her to New York City in 1984, she decided to stay. Still young for a model (not yet 25), she quit to study creative writing and literature at Columbia University and enrolled in an acting workshop. Having appeared in an episode of Fox's campy night-time soap "Melrose Place" (Fox, 1992-99), Janssen landed her first significant role as Jeff Goldblum's romantic interest in "Fathers and Sons" (1992). She followed up playing a model by day, crime fighter by night in the aptly-named, but otherwise awful television movie "Model By Day" (Fox, 1994), a role she has said she would rather forget. The multilingual actress co-starred with Scott Bakula in Clive Barker's "Lord of Illusions" (1995) before hitting screens in her breakthrough role as the villainous Russian killer who crushes men to death with her thighs in "GoldenEye."

Her first film was Fathers & Sons (1992). Later, she became James Bond's enemy in GoldenEye (1995) opposite Pierce Brosnan. Famke received strong critical acclaim for her performance as the femme fatale Xenia Onatopp; she was the first (and easily the most famous) Bond girl of the 1990s. Her career has bloomed since then with her starring in such films as House on Haunted Hill (1999), a reoccurring role on FX's "Nip/Tuck" (2003) and the blockbuster trilogy X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).

Faith Hill Biography

NAME: Faith Hill

OCCUPATION: Singer

BIRTH DATE: September 21, 1967 (Age: 44)

PLACE OF BIRTH: Jackson, Mississippi

ZODIAC SIGN: Virgo

Singer and songwriter. Born Audrey Faith Perry, on September 21, 1967, in Jackson, Mississippi. Raised along with her two older brothers by adoptive parents Pat and Edna Perry, Hill grew up near Jackson, where Pat Perry worked in a factory. Her first singing experience came as a child in her family's Baptist church. As a young teenager, Hill learned to play guitar, and by age 16 she had started her own country band that played at a number of local fairs and rodeos. After graduating from high school in 1986, Hill spent a year in community college before moving to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue her love of music.

In Nashville, Hill worked as a receptionist at a music publishing company before landing a job packaging fan merchandise for her idol, country diva Reba McEntire. She married the songwriter and music publishing executive Daniel Hill in 1988. Hill's professional breakthrough came when she was spotted by Martha Sharp, a talent scout from the Warner/Reprise recording company, while singing back-up for Gary Burr in the Bluebird Café, a popular Nashville bar. Her debut album, Take Me As I Am, was released in 1993 to immediate success. The album's first single, "Wild One," reached No. 1 on the Billboard country music chart and stayed there for four weeks, followed by the second single, a version of Janis Joplin's classic "Piece of My Heart." Take Me As I Am went on to reach triple platinum status.

Faith Hill hit the scene in 1994, with her debut album Take Me As I Am and its no. 1 single, "Wild One." Her second album, It Matters To Me was another hit, and Hill garnered awards and praise from the country music industry. By the late '90s she was making it on the pop charts with hits such as "Breathe" and "The Way You Love Me" (from the Grammy-winning 1999 album Breathe). She also began recording duets with her husband, country music star Tim McGraw, and her magazine-friendly looks -- blonde and thin -- made her a top celebrity. She "returned" to country with 2005's Fireflies and had a hit with "Mississippi Girl," and in 2006 Hill and McGraw had a hugely successful concert tour. She released a Christmas album in 2008, Joy to the World.

Evangeline Lilly Biography

Birth Name : Nicole Evangeline Lilly 

Date of Birth : 3 August 1979, Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada 

Height ; 5' 5" (1.65 m) 

Occupation : Actress

Evangeline Lilly, born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta in 1979, was discovered on the streets of Kelowna, British Columbia by the famous Ford modeling agency. Although she initially decided to pass on a modeling career, she went ahead and signed with Ford anyway, to help pay for her University of British Columbia tuition and expenses.

Evangeline Lilly is best known for her portrayal of the ultra-sexy Kate Austen on the former ABC hit series Lost. Although her film career has been less than stellar, despite a small role in the Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker, things are looking up for the Canadian actress who just landed the role of the Woodland Elf Tauriel in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit.

Evangeline Lilly was an unknown, part-time actress before skyrocketing to fame in 2004 for her role on the TV series Lost (with Matthew Fox). Lilly was a college student in British Columbia, supporting herself with odd jobs and keeping one foot in the entertainment industry, when she was cast in Lost as Kate, the rough-and-tumble brunette with a shady past. By the end of the show's first season, Lilly was gracing magazine covers as one of TV's hottest stars. Beyond the series, which ended in 2010, Lilly has appeared as Jeremy Renner's wife in the Kathryn Bigelow film The Hurt Locker (2009).

Evan Rachel Wood Biography

Birth Name : Evan Rachael Wood 

Date of Birth : 7 September 1987, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA 

Height : 5' 7" (1.70 m) 

Occupation : Actress, singer

Evan Rachel Wood was born in Raleigh, North Carolina to actor/director parents. She made her acting debut at age three at Raleigh's Theater In The Park, owned and run by her father. When she was seven, Wood landed roles in two TV movies: In The Best of Families (1994) and Search for Grace (1994). The following year she played a supporting role in the TV movie A Father for Charlie (1995), starring Lou Gossett Jr., followed by Death in Small Doses (1995), starring Richard Thomas. She also landed a recurring role on three episodes of the CBS TV series American Gothic. By the time she was eight, Wood played Helen Keller in the Theater In The Park's stage production of The Miracle Worker, co-starring her mother as Annie Sullivan and directed by her father. She received rave reviews in the local papers for her subtle performance.

An exceptionally gifted actress, Evan Rachel Wood specialized in playing girls who had often seen and experienced too much at very early ages. She first gained attention while still in grade school on the cult TV series "American Gothic" (CBS, 1995-96) and "Once And Again" (ABC, 1999-2002), before wowing critics with her portrayal of a young girl who dives headlong into sex and drugs in the disturbing indie drama, "Thirteen" (2003), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. After that star-making performance, Wood alternated between mainstream Hollywood features and independent productions, though the latter remained her bread and butter with turns in "Down in the Valley" (2006), "Running with Scissors" (2006) and "Across the Universe" (2007). She delivered another sterling performance, this time opposite Mickey Rourke as his estranged daughter in "The Wrestler" (2009), before landing the recurring role of a vampire queen for the second and third seasons of the hit show "True Blood" (HBO, 2008- ). By the time she earned critical applause for "Mildred Pierce" (HBO, 2011), Wood was already well-established as a talented young actress who time and again impressed audiences alike with her mature and complex performances.

Evan Rachel Wood is definitely hot, but when most guys hear about her relationship with the eccentric Marilyn Manson, her sex appeal suddenly drops. We assume the perfect date would include pre-drinking absinthe before a night on the town sacrificing animals and giving ourselves self-made tattoos with hot pokers. But the on-again-off-again duo called it quits for good in August 2010. And we couldn't be happier that she's finally seeing the light. In the May issue of Esquire, the newly-single Wood, likeTrue Blood co-star before her Anna Paquin, came out as bisexual. Proving she's got class to back up her sass, she's also been the face of Gucci's Guilty campaign since 2010.

Eva Simons Biography

Name : Eva Simons 

Born : April 27, 1984 

Origin : Amsterdam

Genres : Pop, electronic dance

Occupations : Singer-songwriter, dancer

Amsterdam-born singer Eva Simons hails from a long line of musicians with a pianist-father, trumpeter step-father, and vocalist mother. According to the Take Over Control Songfacts, her grandfather was accordion player Johnny Meijer (1912–92), who became so famous in Holland, that his hometown of Amsterdam even dedicated a statue to him. She has been playing piano and composing since she was a small child and graduated from the Conservatorium von Amsterdam.

Simons was born in Amsterdam. She grew up in part of a family from a long line of musicians with a pianist-father, trumpeter stepfather, and vocalist mother. She has been playing piano and composing since she was a small child and graduated from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

Eva Simons began her music career as part of the girlgroup called Rebel Rebel that formed in 1999. The band released several singles like "Turn Around" and "Happy Girl" but they never gained major notoriety and eventually split. Years later, Eva Simons joined another girlgroup called Raffish. Together with four other girls, she got a number one hit in the Netherlands called "Plaything". She made one album with the band, titled How Raffish Are You?, and two other singles were released from the album: "Thursday's Child" and "Let Go".The group disbanded in 2006. In 2009, Eva was the female vocalist on the Dutch editions of Dancing With the Stars and X Factor.

Eva Mendes Biography

Name : Eva Mendes 

Date of Birth : 5 March 1974, USA 

Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m) 

Occupation : Actress

Eva Mendes was born in Miami, Florida but raised in Los Angeles of Cuban-American heritage. In college she began acting, studying underneath acting coach Ivana Chubbuck. This led to her desire to appear in feature films. Though taking many smaller roles in movies, she was little known until playing the girlfriend of Denzel Washington's character in Training Day (2001). Since then she has been featured in a wider range of roles, from comedic to dramatic. 

A growing interest in Latin American film and TV talent during the 1990s helped propel actress Eva Mendes from B movie supporting player to Hollywood star and sex symbol. Her supporting role as Denzel Washington's girlfriend-on-the-side in "Training Day" (2001) put Mendes on the map and she continued to woo male fans with action offerings like "2 Fast 2 Furious" (2003) and "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" (2003). Mendes' pop culture presence rapidly grew out of proportion to her actual on-screen time and she became a favorite fashion model, Revlon spokeswoman, and a boon to the animal rights cause PETA when she posed nude in an advertisement that claimed the actress would rather go naked than wear fur. Regardless of the hype surrounding the leggy starlet, Mendes proved that she had real acting talent, offering up increasingly well-received performances in the hit comedy "Hitch" (2005) and the comic strip-based crime drama "The Spirit" (2008). With over a dozen film credits to her name and an increasing number of successful business ventures, the tough trailblazer emerged as an important role model for the growing ranks of aspiring Latin American entertainers.

Eva La Rue Biography

Birth Name : Eva Maria LaRuy 

Date of Birth : 27 December 1966, Long Beach, California, USA 

Height : 5' 7½" (1.71 m) 

Profession: Actress, singer

Born just two days after Christmas in 1966, Eva Maria LaRuy (later LaRue) was born and raised in Southern California. The oldest of three children, LaRue’s exotic beauty and vaguely indeterminate ethnicity were the result of a potpourri mixture of Puerto Rican, Dutch, Scottish, and French ancestry. LaRue began her acting career at the tender age of six, appearing in commercials. After graduating from Norco Senior High School in 1985, LaRue began modeling. Appearing in a number of print ads and catalogs, LaRue’s sultry good looks and curvaceous figure – to say nothing of her effervescent smile – eventually landed her a contract with the famed lingerie label, Frederick’s of Hollywood.

During her tenure on “All My Children,” LaRue formed close relationships with a number of her castmates. Among the more notable was one with a novice actress named Sarah Michelle Gellar, who would later go on to stardom as “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (WB/UPN, 1997-2003). Cast in the role of ingénue, Kendall Kane, Gellar was reportedly tempted to quit “All My Children” after her first year – rumored in part to off-screen tensions with the show’s star, legendary soap diva, Susan Lucci. Years later, at the height of her “Buffy” fame, Gellar credited LaRue’s early friendship and support as a key factor in ultimately deciding to stick it out on the soap. Ironically, it was LaRue’s close relationship with another fellow cast member, John Callahan, that drew her the most publicity – and not all of it good, either.

In 2010, LaRue reprised her role as Maria temporarily on January 5 for All My Children's 40th anniversary. LaRue also performed in television movies over the years, appearing as Annette Funicello in a biographical movie of the former Mouseketeer and also in the adaptation of Danielle Steel's Remembrance as Princess Serena.

While on All My Children, LaRue developed a notable friendship with Sarah Michelle Gellar, who portrayed the role of Kendall Hart on the soap opera. LaRue also was the second Linda Lorenzo, George Lopez's sister, on the TV sitcom George Lopez. In the fall 2005, LaRue began the role of Natalia Boa Vista on CSI: Miami. It was revealed in the end of Season 4 that Eva's character, Natalia Boa Vista, was the mole in the lab reporting back to the FBI. Beginning with Season 5, LaRue became a fulltime cast member. LaRue and her daughter recently starred in a music video for the song "Armed" by Bahá'í recording artist, Devon Gundry.

In July 2011 and September 2011, LaRue reprised her role as Dr. Maria Santos Grey on All My Children as a guest star as the show wrapped up it's network run on ABC. LaRue's appearance in September reunited her with her co-star and good friend Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Eva Herzigova Biography

Name : Eva Herzigova

Date of Birth : 12 March 1973, Litvinov, Czechoslovakia.

Height : 6' (1.83 m)

Occupation : Model and actress.

Eva Herzigova was born on March 10, 1973, in Litvinov of the Czech Republic. Her mother was a secretary and her father worked as an electrician in a mining company. Both parents stressed the importance of hard work, dedication and perseverance. Even after Eva Herzigova landed her modeling contract, they encouraged her to have something to fall back on, just in case modeling did not work out for her. Growing up in a Northern Czechoslovakian village, modeling was the furthest thing from Eva's mind. She was active in many sports, such as gymnastics, basketball, track, and cross-country skiing. Ironically, Eva Herzigova always felt that her sister was the one destined to become a model. On a visit to Prague with her parents, the 16-year-old Eva met a friend who told her about a modeling contest organized by Metropolitan Models, a French modeling agency. Since her sister was not interested, Eva entered the contest herself. She went on to win the contest, marking the start of her illustrious career. Within six months, she was whisked off to Paris and from from that point on, modeling became her focus in life.

Model Eva Herzigova followed Claudia Schiffer as the lead model for Guess Jeans in the early 1990s and remained a steady presence in the world of modeling for the next two decades. A thin blonde with sharp blue eyes, Herzigova made her biggest splash with a famous series of va-va-voom Wonderbra ads in the 1990s, appearing in lingerie photos with tag lines like "Hello boys" and "Look me in the eyes." Eva Herzigova also was featured in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and the Victoria's Secret lingerie catalog, and her career has continued right into the 21st century, with Herzigova walking catwalks for high-end houses like Louis Vuitton and Hermés and showing up on magazine covers around the world. Eva Herzigova has acted in a few films, including Guardian Angels (1998) and Just For the Time Being (2000). She played Pablo Picasso's first wife, Olga, in the 2004 film Modigliani.

Eva Green Biography

Name: Eva Green

Born: 5 July 1980 (Age: 31)

Where: Paris, France

Height: 5' 6"

Awards: Won 1 BAFTA

Born on July 5, 1980 to her Swedish father, Walter, a dentist, and French mother, Marlene Jobert, an actress, Green and her twin sister Joy were raised in Paris. The shy, sensitive Green took an early interest in acting, despite attempts by her mother to dissuade her from entering the profession. Undeterred by Jobert's concerns, Green attended the Eva St. Paul Drama School in Paris for three years during her late teens, before spending ten weeks at London's Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts to further pursue her acting dreams.

After The Dreamers Green's career ascended to the level where she revealed more of her multifaceted acting talent. She played the love interest of cult French gentleman stealer Arsène Lupin (2004) opposite Romain Duris. In 2005 she co-starred opposite Orlando Bloom and Liam Neeson in Kingdom of Heaven (2005) produced and directed by Ridley Scott. The film became a blockbuster in the US and worldwide and brought her a wider international exposure. She turned down the femme fatale role in The Black Dahlia that went to Hilary Swank because she didn't want to end up always typecast as a femme fatale after her role in The Dreamers. Instead, Eva Green accepted the prestigious role of Vesper Lynd, one of three Bond girls, opposite Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (2006) and became the 5th French actress to play a James Bond girl after Claudine Auger in Thunderball (1965), Corinne Cléry in Moonraker (1979), Carole Bouquet in For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Sophie Marceau in The World is not enough (1999).

Eva Amurri Biography

Birth Name : Eva Maria Livia Amurri 

Date of Birth : 15 March 1985, New York City, New York, USA 

Height : 5' 10" (1.78 m) 

Occupation : Film actress

Eva Amurri was born on March 15, 1985 in New York City. She grew up in a household of Hollywood royalty, including her Italian filmmaker dad Franco Amurri, actress mom Susan Sarandon, step-father actor/director Tim Robbins, TV writers aunt Valentina Amurri and grandfather Antonio Amurri. Eva is of Welsh and Italian descent. 

Amurri began working alongside her mom and former step-dad Tim Robbins in films at age 7. Starting on the 1992 political satire “Bob Roberts,” Eva Amurri continued to appear in the 1995 award-winning movie “Dead Man Walking,” the 1999 coming-of-age drama “Anywhere but Here,” and the 1999 made-for-TV crime drama “Earthly Possessions.” In 2001, she and her mom also made a guest appearance on the hit TV sitcom “Friends.” 

Amurri starred with her mom in "The Banger Sisters" (2002), playing Ginger, daughter to Sarandon's Lavinia, a one-time rock and roll groupie whose suburban life is turned upside down by old friend and fellow groupie, Suzette (Goldie Hawn). The movie received warm reviews, but it was Amurri that scored many of the laughs as an overly privileged teenager. Amurri had another starring role in "Made-Up" (2004), a mockumentary satirizing the reality-TV makeover craze. She played Sara, an aspiring cosmologist and daughter of an aging actress, who wants to document her mom's radical makeover. The movie received a small release, but once again, Amurri got kudos for an acting job well done. Amurri then started in the black comedy, "Saved!" (2004), co-starring Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin and Jena Malone. Amurri played Cassandra, the lone Jewish girl at American Eagle Christian High School, and an exuberant rebel in a group of outsiders who just want to make it to graduation. Despite being on the verge of a star career à la Kate Hudson, Amurri instead has opted to attend college, yet another sign of her determination to be her own person.